Yao Li - People's Faces Like the Peach Blossom 1957 人面桃花-姚莉

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This song is from the 1957 Hong Kong film "The Storm-Tossed Village", which is also known as " Storm in the Peach Blossom Village" (風兩桃花村 ) Yao Li's beautiful voice graced many a film. Her brother Yao Min wrote the soundtrack, with Chen Die Yi providing the screenplay and lyrics here. A great team! Pink peach blossoms, the eternal emblem of love used by ancient Chinese poets to express their admiration for beauties. Since ancient China, numerous peach flower-themed poems, novels, dramas and folk operas have been created. A prevalent folk tale says that anyone who meets his or her loved one under a blossoming peach tree in spring will enjoy a lucky and romantic relationship. The peach flower is often compared to a girl's pretty face glowing with shy smiles. Lyrics: Thank you to cdman88 for his interpretation, and for bringing this upload ' to life ' Last year on this day in this gateway, the people's faces match the red color of the peach blossom. A third of the people's faces were laughing. It was full, full of peach blossoms in the smiling, dancing spring breeze. Henceforth the flames of the beacon suddenly illuminate and reach the sky. It startles the unprovoked mandarin ducks out of their dreams. In an instant people are exiled from their farmhouses leaving them empty. (cont) I don't see the happy faces of the people at the tavern. Asking where is the place, the place. People count on plunder after the onerous engagement. Who knows the faces of the people wandering where to go. They are only left with that old laughing spring breeze of the peach blossom, that laughing spring breeze. 作曲：姚敏 作詞：狄薏 去年今日此門中，人面桃花相映紅， 人面是對人，常帶三分笑， 桃花也盈盈含笑舞春風。 烽火忽然連天起，無端驚破鴛鴦夢， 一霎時流亡，載道廬舍空， 不見了賣酒人家舊芳容。 一處一處問行踪，指望着劫後重相逢， 誰知道人面，漂泊何處去， 祇有那桃花依舊笑春風，笑春風。 LEGEND A famed love story passed down from the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) is still popular today and has been adapted for stage and TV many times. It tells the story of Cui Hu, a young scholar who met a girl in a forest of peach groves during his spring trip to sweep the tomb. Cui fell in love with the girl at first sight and asked her for clean water to drink. But the two young people were too shy to say anything else to each other and parted company. The next spring, Cui stopped on purpose in the forest during his tomb-sweeping trip, hoping he would see the girl again. But after waiting a whole day, the girl didn't show up. A local told Cui that the girl had died of lovesickness after he left last spring. Hearing this, the grieved scholar tried to commit suicide. An immortal, deeply moved by this love, brought the girl back to life with the help of the God of Peach Flower and the couple were finally reunited. The famed love story between Emperor Li Longji (AD 685-762) of the Tang Dynasty and the concubine Yang Yuhuan also incorporates peach blossoms. The beautiful Yang loved the flower very much and the emperor built a large park of peach trees for her in the palace. Yang washed her face with water infused with peach flower petals. She also ground the flower into powder and used it as her make-up. MEDICINAL: According to traditional Chinese medicine, drinking a mixture of bai jiu (liquor) blended with peach flower buds (best picked around the time of the Qingming Festival) and sliced bai zhi (angelica root) can light up the complexion and dispel chloasma effectively. The flower contains kaempferol, coumarin, trifolioside and various vitamins that can expand blood vessels, promote blood circulation, clear the collaterals and channels, supplement more oxygen and speed up the discharge of lipofuscin (one of the aging or "wear and tear" pigments found in cells) from the body. Another simple method can also make the face look pink and plump. Mash fresh peach flower petals and apply the juice to the face. Massage for a few minutes and wash them away. Or mix the dried flower powder with honey and then spread it on the face. These can smooth the skin and invigorate facial cells.